Witcher channel asks for sign ins due to age so using the IGN vid atm, if anyone knows of a way to archive this or whatever please go for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWMu6JeT2g8
Some 4chan thoughts on the matter.
https://boards.4chan.org/vrpg/thread/3675650/witcher-4
c/Gaming thoughts on the matter.
https://communities.win/c/Gaming/p/19A0ojiz4R/witcher-4-ciri-the-girlboss/c
I saw a screenshot of Ciri's face in the Witcher 4 trailer, they really gave her a butterface didn't they.
Like even with her scars in 3, she was beautiful, just playing as Geralt made me seeing her less for partner in a sexual sense, more beautiful daughter I wanted to cuddle after slaying a monster lol.
Anyway the inability to just have beautiful women presented in games when they were there in previous years old games does not instill confidence this will be anything more than lackluster.
Some are explaining her looks as "aging". Yeah, because nobody ages beautifully, not even in fantasy land.
I haven't kept up with any changes to the lore, if any, but her using signs and potions was strange to me. Ciri was already OP, being able to teleport anywhere at will, even in combat, so I wonder why they're going with that. Unless... they're going with a "she lost her powers" route, because of what shed did to stop the White Frost, but that would mean having to undergo the Trials of the Grasses which the other witchers were (at least somewhat) against. Especially Lambert.
Whatever the case, little to no faith in a new witcher sadly, no matter the protagonist.
Some are
huddinghuffing copium to try and explain how shit the product is.Except in this fantasy land the magic users literally keep themselves lookingy young with magic. Yenn is around 100 years old, so is Geralt. These excuses are grasping at straws the book lore dismissed the chances of years ago.
It's always funny how in fantasy and sci fi they need THOUSANDS of excuses to explain why they can't draw for shit.
Harder to explain ugly when magic and sci fi surgery is available.
Similarly how and why someone who is trans can exist in D&D when there are multiple ways to literally change from one sex to the other, beneficial or otherwise as it can range from Divine blessings/wishes to cursed items someone made. If the movement was sincere the "curse" of wearing a belt for the rest of someone's life would be a pittance of inconvenience if it actually did what so many claim to want done. But they don't, because it would then remove their special label where they can talk about how they are vegan/into cross-fit/trans.
If not incompetence it's willful sabotage when they base it off a real model and deliberately uglify her when we all know basic bitch tech these days can render nearly identical. Not sure which is it in this case but the end result is the same.
This was basically my reaction. She already had access to greater powers than Witchers, and Witchers have to nearly kill themselves to be able to do things like signs and have the constitution for potions. Why would she risk an 80% chance of death for lesser powers?
She's not a goddamn Geralt clone.
Hell, aren't Sorceresses generally more powerful than Witchers? And isn't Ciri supposed to have greater potential than even them, as she is?
It did bug me in the "good ending" chat Geralt and Ciri share where she mentions drinking a Swallow potion. It's been shown that non witchers can't survive those and while her own abilities might protect her from them she's still not an actual witcher.
Non witchers can SURVIVE a potion like swallow, they just don't fully recover (remembering that one quest)..
Technically already happened in the books when she burned herself out but then her teleporting was something else entirely so wouldn't be a surprise if she gets amnesia or something that limits her and she just unlocks everything again through the power of closing her eyes and taking a deep breath as is standard for girlboss characters.
Just point out how they went over-the-top in beautifying Geralt. Compare Witcher 1(which is more true to the books) and Witcher 3, where he gets hit with the hollywood model stick.
I'm not surprised they uglified Ciri in the least, but damn is it depressing to see.
Geralt in Witcher 3 is a model? This is the first comment I've ever seen about this. He's just an extremely fit guy, which naturally enhances looks.
Turns out she did undergo the Trial of the Grasses
Is it from the books? Or the first 3 games?
Then it doesn't count. Shitty retcons to excuse shitting sequels should be dismissed for the shitshow they are.
Yeah, and she died for some players, so gg you dipshit. What other forced narratives are going to happen? Did Geralt end up with Yenn or Triss? Did he save Beauclair or not? What happened to
David BeckhamOlgierd?lolno, JFC these idiots don't even know their own bullshit. Ciri has been fighting with a sword for years, even just by the time she shows up in 3. There's a ruthless murderer/assassin in the books that had killed several witchers already that Ciri ends up being the one that kills him, it's where she gets her Cat medallion in the first place before the Crones take it in 3. She's already burned herself out magic wise, she's traveled to Earth, Cyberpunk, the homeworld of the Unicorns and Aen Elle, and done far, far more in the short time she's been alive than most do even just account for normal livespans, something she doesn't even have because of her heritage as a child of the Elder blood, descendant of Lara Dorren, and status as a Source.
Zero fucking surprise these vultures have no idea what they are talking about.
Geralt, nor any of the other remaining witchers, would ever have allowed Ciri to undergo that trial. I don't remember the exact number, but it kills about 70-90% of all the kids that undergo it. Geralt loves Ciri like a father. He simply would not have let her do it, would not teach her what ingredients were used, how to make the potions, or done it for her.
Furthermore, if I remember correctly, there are several story points, lines of dialogue, and quests in Kaer Morhen (the Witcher 3) that say the trial of grasses is no longer possible. The manuscripts detailing the knowledge are all gone. The apparatuses for doing the trial are in ruins. And Vesemir was the last remaining witcher who knew the ingredients, and he was killed in Witcher 3.
This is all lore shattering, character destroying bullshit for just another girlboss game.
I'm unaware of the book lore, is there even a single precedent for an adult to undergo the Trial? In the lore of the games, the only example we have of witchers' secrets being used on adults were the Salamandra mutant soldiers from Witcher 1. Oh hey, maybe I just wrote the lore for Ciri being a butterface now...! You're welcome CDP.
Intuitively it feels like the reason they take witchers as kids is because the trial only works on kids, when it works at all. Genetically altering an adult, who has already undergone all their physical development, doesn't sound like it would make the trial easier, instead it sounds impossible.
If witcher schools could witcherfy adults, even adults with magic capabilities, there should be no good explanation for witchers dying out.
EDIT: also, since it just occurred to me - are we supposed to celebrate the fact that she's sterile now ('And That's A Good Thing...!')? Or will they dodge that uncomfortable implication with convenient plot armour or strategic non-discussion?
WHY?
Because it's a product in the skinsuit of a beloved story, literally no other reason. No point torturing your head.
The MC has to be Ciri because of member berries, feminism, and the alternative being a white male in 2024. The MC in a Witcher game has to be a witcher or else people get mad plus half the lore and gameplay mechanics are gone, so she has to have done the Trial of Grasses. Any further fake explanation of 'why' is going to be totally post hoc, in fact consider it subject to constant internal revision right up until release.